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That was my first thought too. Just depends how much custom shaping you want in there because that way tends to create two completely flat sides (which is not necessarily an issue).

Something similar to this? I did it very quickly so its not too pretty, but all I did was project that bottom edge, copy the sketch, modify, and loft. Then fillet (blend). If you want the entire handle you just do another sketch or three and loft it all. There are probably better ways, but I mostly work with sheet metal. Interested to see what other people come up with. 2023-11-09 09-47-53.mp4

Well, I did try, but the tool wasn't working at all on my AMD home system. I don't use it enough there to troubleshoot the issue. Hopefully what Maurizio posted works for you.

Do you have an AMD CPU by chance?

So I am not at home at the moment, but you are saying what I do in the video (posted below), doesn't work on your AMD machine? If I get a second tonight I will try on my AMD at home and report back. 2023-11-08 16-26-43.mp4

I have a AMD 5900X system at home and have not noticed any issues beyond the normal. But I do not use IC NEARLY as much there, usually for personal stuff like modeling a part for my boat to 3D print or whatever else.

I do know that if you are trying to share catalogs on a server it is a no no in my experience. We have had all sorts of weird issues doing that, but you can keep a standard version on the shared server that people can then save off onto their own systems and it seems to operate pretty well after that. Maybe there are too many people accessing a shared catalog and it's crashing as a result? We have not tried it with larger than three people at a time so I am not sure how it would react.

I have has issues with Open GL and Open GL2 where the part edges look like dotted lines. It is very odd to work with, does this not happen to you also?

This catalog expansion has happened to several people I know. Definitely not an isolated incident.

Yeah, I have seen this a couple times. My favorite is still the one that said "Fatal Error. Cause: Operation completed successfully".

Unless I am losing my mind (very real possibility) you can just snap to the center of a hole. But within a 2D sketch, if you are having trouble, just project the holes, snap to it then, delete the projection.

I don't know if anyone here has seen this, but thanks for bringing it to our attention. We make parts like this daily so we will keep a look out. -Spencer

I do very large structures in exclusively IC all the time. It has worked great so far! All built and in the field as we speak. I use ICD though instead of CAXA. Don't get Malcolm started on that subject though haha just kidding. Maybe one day we will make the CAXA shift.

Very cool, Thanks. I have been looking for an easy way to do this for a while now.

Do not put a space anywhere. That is what I am guessing you did.

Run sfc/scannow in command prompt

This is more of a file management issue for sure. With the right admin rights to your server you can create groups for managing permissions (assuming windows). We use these permissions to control who can do what and do NOT allow people that don't know what they are doing to access files, especially linked ones. We implement training for new people that ensures they know how important it is to manage them correctly and ease them into less significant changes until we trust them fully (doesn't take long). There is of course the 3D viewer called "Compose" that will not allow changes more or less which will allow people from within the company to view the 3D files themselves with far less control. These people will generally not have IC at all and just the compose file viewer. Our shop, for instance, has extremely limited access and only has viewers and can only access certain files. I wouldn't expect IC to have to deal with the permission issues since its a file and folder issue at its heart. The biggest thing is to not allow people who don't know what they are doing to have access to those files and to calmly explain why that's the case if it comes up, I think you will find mostly anyone will understand and be fine with the viewer since that's all they are likely doing anyways. If they do want to mess with the model, just provide them with a quick, unlinked (use external link manager and one click) version and tell them to have at it.

You can print a 200 meter by 200 meter PDF if you want, but it all comes down to the printer you have because a plotter that does a 2m x 3m print would be a beast.

We had run into this when we tried to network catalogs, but that sounds like a different issue. We all just keep our own custom, personal ones now based on a company wide example we have on the server here.

If anyone is interested, Blender has an addon called GIS which can pull in geography, topographical, and image data from public satellite information and use the topographical data to extrude land mass (mountains, valleys, etc.) and building also. You can then import this and use a top view to project the edges of all the objects or just bring directly into ICD, It is an extremely impressive tool, highly recommend trying. You can also generate a 3D landscape from a real one almost instantly if you are a videogame creator etc. When used in conjunction with IC, all sorts of crazy things are possible.

I cant really understand any of that, but when you create a new configuration there are several check boxes that will allow you to suppress parts and other things without effecting the other configurations. Try reading through those. 我无法真正理解其中任何一个，但是当您创建新配置时，有几个复选框可以让您抑制零件和其他内容而不影响其他配置。尝试阅读这些内容。

Our DWG exports come in all white, but the actual layers are correct. It overwrites the "color" to be white so we just made a routine that automatically swaps everything to the color option "by layer" and everything works great. Hopefully that is helpful in some way.

Haha so weird. Me and a colleague were talking about this just yesterday and we hadn't used the feature in probably four years.

We have delved into CAXA a handful of times, but we always end up coming back to ICD. ICD seems to suit our purposes better (though CAXA does have much more functionality). As for weld symbols, if you use the correct ones there is no need for visual display of the symbol itself unless you don't trust the person actually welding it or think its not clear enough, in which case we add a specific detail or section to accommodate. My company was all 2D AutoCAD and I was brought in to start doing 3D and it certainly was a culture shock to start not using those symbols (weld geometry representation), but we quickly realized they are not needed. -Spencer

As far as I know there is no tool to do this like you would see in AutoCAD.